From the Forerunner Bookstore: The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World (Reviewed)
The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World is a compilation of messages given during a conference held in Minnesota in 2006. Read the cover carefully as it is not a book by John Piper (though he is one of the contributors) but rather a collection of messages by many contributors, compiled by John Piper and Justin Taylor as general editors. For avid John Piper fans, you will enjoy his chapter on joy and the supremacy of Christ, but that chapter is the only one written by him.
This book explores culture, truth, the gospel, the church, and ministry as it relates to engaging our contemporary world. Whether we like it or not, we are in a postmodern era. Growing religious and spiritual diversity constitutes one of the biggest cultural shifts America has ever seen. The aforementioned Minnesota conference, from which this book emerged, convened in order to answer some of the questions associated with this shift by grappling with current cultural context and values. Without abandoning adherence to the Word of God and traditional evangelical beliefs, these messages provide doctrinally sound and pastorally sensitive ways to engage a postmodern ethos.
This is such a relevant book for this generation, and I recommend it to anyone who is connected in any way to the emerging church movement. The church in America is looking for a better way to engage a diversified people, and this work is an excellent tribute to that search in its unwavering commitment to the inerrancy of Scripture and the supremacy of Christ. Our culture would seek to subjugate truth and minimize authority, but “there is nothing in the modern world that is a match for the power of God and nothing in modern culture which diminishes our understanding of the supremacy of Christ” (Piper and Taylor, eds., 25).
